Report: Injured Zarqawi Has Fled Iraq

Reuters ^ | May 28, 2005

[West Coast Conservative]

Al-Qaida’s leader in Iraq Abu Musab al-Zarqawi had fled the country after being seriously injured in a U.S. missile attack, a British newspaper reported on Sunday, quoting a senior commander of the Iraqi insurgency.

Al-Zarqawi has shrapnel lodged in his chest and may have been moved to Iran, The Sunday Times newspaper reported, adding his supporters may try to move him on to another country for an operation.

The paper quoted an unnamed insurgency commander as saying the Jordanian-born militant was wounded three weeks ago when a U.S. missile hit his convoy near the northwestern Iraqi city of al Qaim.

“Shrapnel went in between the right shoulder and his chest, ripped it open and is still stuck there,” the commander said, adding a second piece of shrapnel penetrated Zarqawi’s chest but exited from his back.

“There was concern about spinal injuries,” the commander said. “But his ability to move eliminated that fear.”

The Sunday Times said Zarqawi, accused of masterminding many of the worst insurgent attacks in Iraq, was carried from his vehicle after the missile strike and given basic first aid in a hideout.

When he became delirious with fever four days later he was taken to hospital in the city of Ramadi, 68 miles west of Baghdad, it said. The paper did not say when the commander was speaking but said the source had proved reliable in the past.

[Calpernia]

Looks like we will have a bunch of "he is dead", "he lives threads"

Source is a blog, not official:

http://www.hammorabi.blogspot.com/

Alert: Zarqawi died

The Jordanian thug Fadhel Nazal Al-Khalayla (Zarqawi) 38 years has died.

He received treatment from Arab doctors who were not very experts and lacking intensive care equipments which he needed for his puncture in the right lung. His wounds infection gets resistance to the antibiotics. He had what is called septicemia which is according to doctors an infection of the blood resulted from infected wound. Zarqawi's systems started to fail including his kidney and liver.

He died and now in the hands of the Keepers of the Hell in its worst level.

His family in Jordan preparing and expected to do Fataha (funeral for him soon).

Jordan again put itself in the opposite front of the civilized world and with the terrorist.

The Iraqis and all other civilised people should protest strongly against any funeral events for Zarqawi in Jordan

[MinorityRepublican]

Al-Zarqawi has shrapnel lodged in his chest and may have been moved to Iran, The Sunday Times newspaper reported, adding his supporters may try to move him on to another country for an operation.

Send in Special Forces to retrieve him in Iran or any place where he may be having an operation.

[Cowboy Bob]

...a British newspaper reported on Sunday, quoting a senior commander of the Iraqi insurgency.

Wonder how they got that interview?

[LauraleeBraswell]

Wait one second-

""a British newspaper reported on Sunday, quoting a senior commander of the Iraqi insurgency.""

A British newspaper can find and interview the senior commander of the Iraqi insurgency but the US government can't.

[nutmeg]

ping!

Please FReepmail me if you want on or off my ‘miscellaneous’ ping list.

[mad_as_he$$]

Does the name Adid mean anything to you?

[csvset]

Zed's dead baby, Zed's dead.

At least until the next sighting that is.

[Deetes]

Also commented on here...

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1412441/posts

I hope he is suffering !!!!

[fiftymegaton]

The story here is whether or not Zarqawi is injured or possibly killed not that he has fled Iraq. Cause from what I understand he's been in and out of Iraq all the time for years.

[LauraleeBraswell]

actually, no it doesn't.

[bray]

A British newspaper can find and interview the senior commander of the Iraqi insurgency but the US government can't.

The US Gummit is not an ally of Al Queda!

Pray for W and Our Troops

[ZULU]

Hope he goes somewhere a hell of a lot hotter.

[Chgogal]

Ping!

[2Hot4You]

A British newspaper can find and interview the senior commander of the Iraqi insurgency but the US government can't.

What makes you think the British newspaper found him? More likely the "senior commander" found the British newspaper, if the story's true at all.

Don't be so quick to criticize until you know the facts.

[au eagle]

From Will Collier at Vodkapundit.com:

Hey, If Newsweek Can Spread Unsubstantiated Rumors...
Posted by Will Collier · 26 May 2005 · Permalink

I'm hearing quite a bit of chatter through the USAF contractor grapevine that Zarqawi is dead. The only reason I mention it here is, the rumor is apparently rampant at Hurlburt AFB Field, home of the Air Force Special Ops guys, some of whom would be in a position to know such things.

Take it for what you paid for it, but I certainly hope the murderous son of a bitch is assuming room temperature in Hell.

[kstewskis]

“Shrapnel went in between the right shoulder and his chest, ripped it open and is still stuck there,” the commander said,

Too bad it wasn't the left side.

Good chance he'd be dead, Jim.

[Brilliant]

If true, then it's great news. It will be interesting to see how the Iraqi terrorists react to their leader fleeing in shock.

[Viking2002]

Tehran should be nuked just for allowing him the country. The weird beards have no redeeming qualities, period, and I bet the Pentagon would love to see how their latest ordinance lights off.

[mad_as_he$$]

"General" Adid was the head of the largest faction in the war in Somilia in the early 90's. It was him or his top people that we were after when Back Hawk Down happened. We searched and searched and could not get the guy. Meanwhile he is conducting interviews with just about anybody with a press badge. Our General in chage of the operation was a guy named Garrison. Adid was killed about three years, as I recall, after the incident by "unknown" assassins. Garrison died with a month after. I know a retired Delta operator who claims the D boys did Adid for payback.